THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TOMARK

CHAPTER 14

11Now the aPassover and the FeastofbUnleavened Bread were ctwo days away. And the chief priests and the scribes were seeking a way to dseize Him by craftiness and ekill Him,

2 For they said, Not at the feast, lest there be a atumult by the people.

31And while He was in aBethany in the bhouse of Simon the cleper, as He reclined attable, a woman came, having an alabaster flask of ointment, of very costly pure nard, and she broke the alabaster flask and poured it over His head.

4 But there were some who were indignantly commenting among themselves: Why has this waste of the ointment 1been made?

5 For this ointment could have been sold for over athree hundred 1denarii and given to the bpoor. And they were infuriated with her.

6 But Jesus said, Leave her alone. Why do you trouble her? She has done a noble deed on Me.

7 For you always have the apoor with you, and whenever you want, you can do good for them. But you do not always have 1Me.

81She has done what she could; she has 2anointed My body beforehand for the aburial.

9 And truly I say to you, Wherever the gospel is 1proclaimed in the whole aworld, what this woman has done shall also be told as a bmemorial of her.

10 And aJudas Iscariot, one of the btwelve, went off to the chief priests to cdeliver Him up to them.

11 And when they heard this, they rejoiced and promised to give him 1money. And he sought a way to 2deliver Him up opportunely.

58 We heard Him say, I will adestroy this temple made with bhands, and 1in three days I will build another made without hands.

59 And neither in this regard was their testimony consistent.

60 And the high priest stood up in the midst and questioned Jesus, saying, Do You not answer anything? What isthisthat these testify against You?

61 But He was silent and did not answer aanything. Again the high priest questioned Him and said to Him, Are bYou the cChrist, the Son of the 1dBlessed?

62 And Jesus said, 1I am. And you shall see the aSon of Man sitting at the bright hand of Power and coming with the clouds of heaven.

63 And the high priest, atearing his 1garments, said, What further need do we have of witnesses?

64 You heard the 1ablasphemy! How does it appear to you? And they all condemned Him of being worthy of bdeath.

65 And some began to 1aspit at Him and to bblindfold His face and to cbeat Him with their fists and to say to Him, 2Prophesy! And the attendants, 3dslapping Him about, took Him.

661And while Peter was below in the acourtyard, one of the servant girls of the high priest came,

67 And seeing Peter warming himself, she looked at him and said, You also were with the aNazarene, Jesus.

68 But he denied it, saying, I neither know nor understand what you are talking about. And he went outside into the forecourt, and a rooster crowed.

69 And the servant girl, seeing him, began again to say to those standing by, This man is one of them!

70 But again he denied it. And after a little while, those standing by again said to Peter, Surely you are one of them, for you are a aGalilean as 1well.

71 But he began to 1curse and to swear, I do not know this man of whom you speak!

72 And aimmediately a brooster crowed a second time. And Peter remembered the word, how Jesus had said to him, Before a rooster crows twice, you will deny Me three times. And thinking upon it, he wept.

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